Tech Vs Biotics

These differences are mostly spot on. But, the Asari aren't necessarily the best at biotics automatically. In my opinion, they're better in average-- but, at the top, humans are equal-- if, not better. Look at Jack-- look at Shepard. Benezia with her geth and Asari Commandos got her ass kicked at Noveria.

What? I'm sure you're not implying that without the upgrade, that a squadmate will be taken by the seeker swarms even if Jack is loyal.

I've given her that upgrade a couple of times, but most times I don't. Never seen it make a difference when she is maintaining the barrier.

I think you covered most but I was looking at 2 things here.

3) The asari councilor (both) seems not to have a grasp on her biotics.  I'm sure she is biotic but even when threatened by Udina she (whichever one is there) will not fight back.  She cowers until Kaidan/Ashley or Shepard kills him.  I don't know if she's a matriarch but I'd imagine you have to have a lot of experience to be a councilor.  At the very least she's a matron so should still be significantly powerful.  Yet, she doesn't seem to be.

5) All asari are biotics.  I don't know if it's because of constant exposure to eezo on their homeworld or something more because asari have colonized other worlds.  Can a mineral seep into the DNA of a race via evolutionary factors?  In the distant past, did those who couldn't stand exposure to eezo simply die off, leaving only asari who will metabolize eezo and become biotic?  (Just read wiki on them so reminded of some things.) OK, so Protheans altered them to be able to use biotics, but it would still require eezo to activate it, wouldn't it?  And if asari can be altered to be biotic, wouldn't that be possible for any race?  I think being biotic is rare only until other races figure out how to make it the norm.

I'm curious...

What class or a profile would a Chemist or a Physicist who decides to join the Alliance or the Andromeda Initiative be ?

Enginner or something else ?

Probably Engineer (as in Chemical Engineer, Bio- Engineer, etc.)

Although the playable class in the game is quite obviously an electrical engineer (or the future equivalent of one).

^Yeah I was just using them as an example of how biotics are supposed to be rare except for the blue-alien-babe race.

Maybe Quarians would evolve or be altered to become biotics, but on the other hand much tech is just mass effect fields so maybe an omnitool that could create a singularity isn't out of the question. Disruptor torpedoes are supposed to generate a warp field. May not matter that they don't evolve to have biotic predisposition.

Combat can make you a Legend.
Biotics can make you a God.
Tech can make you a Force.

What do you prefer?

Even if Tech can theoretically and often practically do more, the empowerment of Biotics may be intoxicating and very applicable in tons of situations, without as much knowledge or tools required.

Biotic potential isn't even remotely reached either. Look forward to ships moving with Biotics, planets running with it, armies overcoming others with it. Can tech do more once developed and built and maintained? Yep! Does an already powerful Biotic need nearly as much stuff developed and built and maintained. Also yep! A GOD!

Even on a more grounded level of things, lets imagine if the Asari went to war with everyone, and lets assume they were secretly setting up a war footing instead of their known diplomatic footing. They'd be stomped, right? Salarians have better tech, Turians have better soldiers.
Not necessarily. Again, assuming they've been prepping, the Asari could produce the best strike teams of them all (better than STG, better than Turian squads) to hit the most valuable enemy targets and crumble resistance. If they really cared to, the Asari could situate themselves as the 'biotic gods' of the MEU. In the darkest theories of the BSN, they already secretly intend to . But they don't and probably won't, for several reasons.


Point is though, a Biotic beats a Combat person lacking much better guns and a Tech person without that tech on hand. They are units of great power, and that power is amplified greatly when combined in groups. Toss tons of droids, doesn't matter. Hack everything around them, doesn't matter. Shoot rockets and bombard with rounds, doesn't matter. Of course Biotics can be taken down. But trained ones WILL rip you apart.


However, there are still ways to counter even Asari biotics, and the biotics of the other races are not so developed as to automatically be superior to other people in this sci-fi setting. I'm just taking more of a perspective of what I think 'Biotics' can do in a general and even hypothetical sense, than the likely setups in the known MEU events.

There's just a reason why many, many people either fear or admire Biotics, while accepting the techniques of Combat or adjusting to the developments of Tech. Biotics are a weapon themselves, with less need to train, less requirements of supplies, and less push for a sort of research. They're there, they're super powerful, and you gotta deal with them always being a way of things. They disrupt the Turian expectations, they are prioritized for the Krogan, they're useful to the Salarians, they're part of the superiority of Asari, they're a goal for Humanity. Lots of other approaches to big problems, but as an Asari, you know what yours is likely going to be, and others understand you going for that.

Mordin is not an Engineer but his powers are that of an Engineer.

We keep saying that Biotics is "Space Magic" but I'm actually thinking if *Tech* is "Space Magic".

Flamethrower, CryoBeam, and that new electric thingy in Andromeda....this is like the real space magic.

I think most of it isn't the far-fetched except when we get into "embrace eternity".  I'm not sure mind melding is a real thing unless quantum entanglement turns out to be a thing whereby we can teleport and access the minds of others.  (Note: It seems unlikely but who knows what we may discover.)